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No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing.

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The Restored Church of Jesus Christ is the stone cut without hands. It will overcome the kingdoms of earth and fill the world.

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@JasminRappleye I've noticed non-meso advocates usually support it out of a rigid interpretation of Joseph Smith comments, not because the text lends itself to it. (If you REALLY believe Joseph Smith is a prophet, you must support this.)

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@CapturingChrist Trinitarianism is a man-made doctrine.

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@tylerbegan124 Oh, then I'd probably point to all the Hebrew language aspects that were unknown to Joseph Smith. Consonants not used in Hebrew that were never used in names, poetic structure, names that were later found to be genuine to the time period, grammatical idiosyncrasies, etc.

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The type of evidence that Book of Mormon critics demand to see.

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@Scath_na_Gealai Do you also demand to see the stone tablets Moses brought down from Mount Sinai?

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@tylerbegan124 Do you mean as opposed to taking place somewhere else?

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@BasicBaptistGuy Ok. Write your own. Put up or shut up.

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@kariwarburton Brigham McKay Hinckley.

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@PearlKevinPrice @prockwellbg @JohnnyTani3 @Bar_tolmi That just creates the problem of how plates (and an angel) were fabricated

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@RealMattFradd It's weird how you have the inability to see how you're unfairly caricaturing our religion when surely you have experienced people doing that to yours.

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@CrazyVibes_1 I thought you meant where were parents to prevent you from consuming all the questionable content that made it into 80s PG movies.

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@1000HolyPlaces Looks fun!

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@Pseudo_Prophet_ @Tburdy @grok is this story true?

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@Latterdaytruth @mwbowler I'm disappointed in England not living up to its stereotype.

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This demonstrates the possibility that Joseph Smith may have seen a map with the name Nehem written on it. There's still the issue of needing to know how vowels in Hebrew work, that Nahom means to mourn (and was a burial site), and circumstantially why he would grab one name and not others. The case would be helped as well by any evidence that any research materials were consulted (other than a Bible).

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Offering some hopefully kind words to anyone who might be the parent of a full-time young LDS missionary - or will be in the future...

Along with my wife, I recently served an 18-month mission as an Area Medical Advisor. We covered 13 missions in the North America Central Area, dealing with the physical, mental, and emotional health of hundreds of missionaries.

I'd estimate that probably 94-95 percent of missionaries are enthusiastic, faithful, hard-working young men and women and get along great with their companions.

But somewhere around 5-6 percent of young missionaries struggle. And some struggle mightily! Some struggle with depression, anxiety, autism, and/or ADHD. Others just don't really want to be out in the field serving a mission and drag their feet daily.

Mission Leaders - the Mission President and his wife - leave their lives, their families, their work, and their careers for three years to truly live the Law of Consecration presiding over missions. It's a 24/7/365 calling. My wife and I grew to admire and respect these couples greatly! It just might be the hardest calling in the entire church!

In many cases, their greatest challenge wasn't dealing with the missionaries, it was dealing with the parents of the missionaries!

If you're the parent of a missionary, and you start getting calls from a concerned Mission President, please don't make his life and his job harder. Please accept that he is doing his level best to help your child. He and his wife are inspired, and they're right there "in the arena" with your child.

Also remember this: If your child is a virtually non-functioning missionary, that also destroys the mission experience of his or her companion! And that's not fair to the companion.

Also remember that the Mission President is typically responsible for around 150 or more missionaries. He simply cannot devote all of his time to your child.

So, if you receive concerning calls from your child's Mission President, it's perfectly fine to offer your thoughts or suggestions to him. It's also perfectly fine to urge and encourage your child to work hard and follow the counsel of his/her Mission President. But please don't dig in your heels and oppose the Mission President.

Yes, you know your child. But you don't know your child living far from home under the stress and demands of a full-time mission.

We honestly experienced parents who would state, "President, you can send my son home. But we're not going to pick him up at the airport. If he comes home from his mission, he's on his own!" Don't be that parent.

Also - to all LDS parents: Teach your children to do hard things as they're growing up. A mission is a hard thing. Very rewarding, but hard. It was pretty clear to us which missionaries had never done hard things.

And one last thought: Service Missions are real missions! Service Missions are NOT "less than." There are many ways to faithfully serve the Lord. Service Missions are one of those very valid ways. We came to love Service Missions and Service Missionaries!

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@JohnnyTani3 @prockwellbg @Bar_tolmi Non sequitur.

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@JohnnyTani3 @prockwellbg @Bar_tolmi That was written by a scribe. All of the witnesses confirmed their testimonies.

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@Dred_DelGath @Sola_GPT Lots of revelations were given at Harmony, Pennsylvania. We know that's a real place, unlike this "Garden of Eden" in the Bible.

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@Bar_tolmi Is this a joke? Gold plates, ancient steel, and even large ancient American cities were unknown when the Book of Mormon was published. They were "anachronisms" that disproved it. The fact that these have since been discovered is evidence for it.